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PENNS GROVE - Forty years ago, a man walked into St. James Grammar School with a 12-gauge shotgun in his hand.Forty years ago, the man opened fire on the second grade classroom of the school ...
The prescriptivist stranglehold on grammar isn't just restrictive, ... Sixth graders attend a math class at Success Academy Middle School in New York, March 3, 2014.
Voices Grammar schools like the one I went to are good for social mobility – the public schools most politicians attend are not. I get angry sometimes because I know there were children born ...
Middle class children are disproportionately represented in grammar schools, but a place in a grammar school is by no means guaranteed even for those with “professional” parents.
Grammar schools started being phased out in the late 1960s. sleepymyf/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Although grammar schools still exist in some pockets of the country such as Kent and Buckinghamshire, in ...
Looking back on his days in front of a high school classroom, the acclaimed writer shares his views on grammar and explains why discovering great literature is like losing one's virginity.